Improvement in disinfecting compounds



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JOHN GAMGEE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN DlSiNFECTING COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,430, dated November26, 1872.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GAMGEE, of No. 1 Great Winchester StreetBuildings, in the city of London and Kingdom of Great Britain, haveinvented certain Improvements in the Manufacture of Ghloralum andGhloralum Powder, of which the followingis a specification:

My invention consists, for the manufacture of the antiseptic 0rdisinfectant known as chloralum, in mixing together, in suitableproportions and in any convenient manner, chloride of calcium andsulphate of alumina, for the purpose of obtaining a hydrated chloride ofaluminium, which I find is a very powerful and effective antiseptic,disinfectant, or deodorizer.

For the manufacture of the above-described compound into what I callchloralum powder, I grind together the dried chloride of calcium and thesulphate of alumina, to which from fifty to seventy-five per cent. ofsilica or of sulphate of lime is added as a basis, the result being apowder suitable for use in the same manner as other deodorizing powder.-

' I claim- 1. The manufacture of chloralum or chloride of aluminium bythe mixture of chloride of calcium with sulphate of alumina,substantially as herein set forth.

